The Sunday Painter

Presentation Details
The Sunday Painter will feature a series of glass chalices and oil bar drawings by British artist Nicholas Pope in a solo presentation. Titled The Conundrum of the Chalices of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues, the series represents the seven deadly sins and seven virtues of early Christian thought: pride, lust, envy, avarice, gluttony, sloth, and wrath, as well as prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity. Pope collaborated with a master glassmaker to translate his exuberant mark-making into absurdist vessels. The installation continues the artist’s fascination with belief systems, which dates back to the resurgence of his practice in the 1990s following a period of serious illness. Pope first came to prominence in the 1970s among a generation of British sculptors including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, and Antony Gormley.

About the Gallery
Harry Beer and Will Jarvis established The Sunday Painter in 2009 as an artist-run project space to show the work of their friends and peers. Conceived while the founders were art students at the Chelsea College of Arts and the Camberwell College of Arts, the gallery was originally located in a disused function room of a local pub in Peckham. In 2013, The Sunday Painter found a permanent space and transitioned to a commercial gallery model, with Tom Cole joining the gallery as a partner, representing and exhibiting the work of emerging and mid-career artists from the UK and abroad, including Leo Fitzmaurice, Rob Chavasse, Piotr Łakomy, and Samara Scott. In 2017, the gallery moved to its current space in Vauxhall, opening with gallery artist Cynthia Daignault’s first UK solo exhibition. The gallery’s origins are reflected in its commitment to running an artist-first space and cultivating a program that continually confronts, questions, and evolves with itself and the world around it.